George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters
One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher
Rothko Chapel in Houston closes due to hurricane damage
The popular pilgrimage site for fans of Abstract Expressionism was damaged during Hurricane Beryl last month
Amid $33m renovation project, Bronx Museum’s executive director departs to lead MFA St Petersburg
Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the Bronx Museum since 2020, will take on his new role in Florida in October
Heavy rains cause partial collapse of ancient pyramid in Mexico
Authorities said that significant precipitation amid a severe drought had undermined the Purépecha structure at Ihuatzio
Harvard University will not rename its Arthur M. Sackler Museum
The decision follows a years-long campaign by activists who urged Harvard to distance itself from the Sackler family over its ties to the opioid epidemic
Activist and journalist charged with hate crimes over vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes
The charges stem from incidents in June, when activists sprayed red paint on the museum officials’ homes as a pro-Palestine protest
Florida man pleads guilty to bombing satirical statue of Lenin and Mao
A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party
Judge orders owner of mysterious African art collection in Houston to hand over works worth nearly $1m to settle legal dispute
The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months
Giant pigeon sculpture will land on New York's High Line this autumn
Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October
American Museum of Natural History has repatriated more than 100 Native American human remains and 90 objects
The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year
Kyla McMillan is The Armory Show’s new director
McMillan joins as the New York City fair, which was acquired by Frieze last summer, prepares for its 30th anniversary edition in September
Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display
The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September
New beginnings for public art programme at Newfields
More than a decade after it opened, the art and nature park at the Indianapolis institution has $3m in new funding and its first new show
Art is on the curriculum at The Campus, a former school in upstate New York transformed by six galleries
From former classrooms, locker rooms, labs, a gymnasium and an overgrown football field, art is present in nearly every space
New York City budget for 2025 restores $53m in cultural funding
The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems
After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims
The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him
MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture
After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle
Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution
Leading New York gallerist Barbara Gladstone has died, aged 89
The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century
Gagosian’s chief operating officer Andrew Fabricant leaves gallery
Fabricant’s wife Laura Paulson, a former Christie's rainmaker who helped launch Gagosian Art Advisory, has also left
US museums postpone Kehinde Wiley shows following series of sexual assault allegations against the artist
Exhibitions of the artist's work at museums in Florida, Minnesota and Nebraska have been postponed
Brooklyn Museum director’s home targeted by pro-Palestine activists
The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”
Amid backlash, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will modify exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish founders
Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists
Photofairs' New York fair is cancelled until ‘market conditions improve’
The fair debuted in 2023 on the same dates and in the same building as The Armory Show
State officials will investigate sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts as 600 workers are laid off
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is examining the circumstances surrounding the renowned school’s closure, and Philadelphia’s city council is planning hearings
Alleged ringleader of Canada’s ‘biggest art fraud’ pleads guilty
David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years
MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting sold to the Nazis, appeals court rules
The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War
Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard
Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard